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| 1. | [no image] | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Kodansha globe) from Kodansha Amer Inc Customer Review:  Surprisingly well written personal history...not always a page-turner, but Obama gives real and honest insight about the very specific emotions of growing up the way he did. As such, it really reveals the kind of man he is...and the point view he's likely to bring to the... |
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| 2. |  | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln from Simon & Schuster Price: $12.60 Customer Review: Read this book if you know anything at all about Abraham Lincoln, or very little! The author has crafted a rich, detailed perspective of a man for all seasons, an American for all times. Our country longs for the depth and breath of his wisdom as much now as during the slice of history in which he... |
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| 3. |  | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World from Tantor Media Price: $44.09 Customer Review: Have you ever wondered how banking started? How the South really lost the war? What really happened last year on Wall Street? This book explains the real reason behind nearly every historical event for the past 800 years. |
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| 4. |  | The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression from Harper Perennial Price: $9.57 Customer Review: Gave this as a gift and haven't read myself, but the reader says it is well worth reading. |
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| 5. |  | The Post-American World from Simon & Schuster Audio Price: $26.37 Customer Review: An intelligent book that looks at trends in globalization, modernization of developing countries, and what it all means to the United States. Zakaria is clearly adept at gathering, processing, and synthesizing vast and seemingly unrelated bodies of information about a subject. I guess that is what... |
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| 6. |  | The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Price: $37.80 Customer Review: I ordered this book for my husband for Christmas and was pleased it arrived in a timely manner. I'm disappointed that the 1st part of the book can only be read by a magnifying glass, (though I understand that's the type the papers were using at the time ) My husband loves the book so... |
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| 7. |  | The World Is Flat from Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Customer Review:  A transparent attempt to justify the new colonialism. In the 16th century it was the great nations of Europe, in the 21st it is the multinational corporation. It is still exploitation of the haves by the have-nots, just a lot of new lipstick on the same old pig! |
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| 8. |  | Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change from Broadway Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This is a must read. Buy copies for your parents and for your kids. READ IT and spread the word. A |
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| 9. |  | A Short History of Nearly Everything from Random House Audio Price: $19.72 Customer Review: Let me start by saying that this was one of the most interesting and enjoyable books I have ever read! The author starts by explaining the beginning of the universe and he discusses it in a very intriguing and easy to understand way. The truly "astronomical" numbers are put into interesting... |
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| 10. |  | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family from W.W. Norton & Co. Price: $23.10 Customer Review: This is an incredibly rich and detailed history of one African-American family, the Hemingses of Monticello. Ten years ago DNA analysis confirmed a two hundred year old rumor, that Sally Hemings, a slave belonging to Thomas Jefferson, had in all likelihood been his mistress and borne children by... |
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| 11. |  | The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story from W. W. Norton Price: $16.29 Customer Review: My sister gave me this book for Christmas, saying it was one of the best books she had read in some time. I was fascinated by her description, and started the book the next day. I finished it the next morning. I found it eminently readable and fascinating. I was a history major in college, and had... |
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| 12. |  | The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.88 Customer Review:  The Defining Moment is extremely relevant to the current period, the transition between Presidents Bush and Obama. The parallels are impressive: pressure for the President-elect to start acting, vast economic problems, and even an international economic conference. Alter demonstrates that FDR... |
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| 13. |  | A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Modern Classics Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Every high school student should read this book as a part of American history. While there is certainly a great deal more to know about our nation's history than what is contained in Zinn's analysis, it represents a critical perspective that is not to be found elsewhere. And for those adults... |
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| 14. |  | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies from W. W. Norton Price: $16.47 Customer Review: With over 1,000 reviews on Amazon it is quite unlikely you will read anything different in my review than all the other five star reviews. I must say that Jared Diamond has written an extraordinary book. The question he tackles with GGS is, "Why and how did wealth and power develop in some areas and... |
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| 15. |  | Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America from Scribner Price: $24.75 Customer Review: Graceful, witty and fascinating, dense with a compelling choice of facts and narratives. It's a timely, probably classic history book. Meanwhile its parade of well-chosen anecdotes would make for quite the hilarious movie. It's astonishing how many operatives mentioned in this book returned to... |
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| 16. | [no image] | THE GREAT CRASH, 1929 (PELICAN S.) from PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Customer Review: Gailbraith's book is an insightful and witty history of the Great Crash of 1929. Though written years ago it seems as if it could have been written yestereday and there are many parallels of course with the economic "meltdown" that is going on around us. I can't really fault the book as it is about... |
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| 17. |  | The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order from Simon & Schuster Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Published over ten years ago and this book is still more relevant than ever. Whether or not you agree with Huntington, you cannot dispute that this is an excellent read. Those who agree that the West is at war with Islam will find much to like within these pages as Huntington offers much empirical... |
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| 18. | [no image] | The Prince from Signet Customer Review:  Always heard about the man and the book but it was difficult trying to follow and understand. Gave up three quarters of the way through. Did learn a little something though. |
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| 19. |  | 1776 from Simon & Schuster Price: $12.24 Customer Review: I ordered the book 1776 over 6 weeks ago and never received it. My child needs this book for a class beginning in January and I fully do not expect her to have it. |
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| 20. |  | No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II from Simon & Schuster Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Doris Kearn is very thorough and uses many quotations from other sources. She has organized the information in an easy to read format and I trust she has gleaned the TRUTH and not her own interpretation of the facts. |
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| 21. |  | America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It from Blackstone Audio Inc. Price: $23.66 Customer Review: Erudite, yet accessible; dead serious, but delivers its dire warnings with a good dose of wit and humor. This is one of the most important books of recent days, and it's one we'll take off our shelves to reread in ten years and wonder how we all could have been so blind to what was going on around... |
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| 22. |  | Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System from Tantor Media Price: $19.74 Customer Review: Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System good story. Scary truth. |
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| 23. |  | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $12.24 Customer Review: Human history is full of tantalizing riddles. Some of the most fascinating of these arise from the appearance of ancient ruins in unlikely places, such as Easter Island, or the dense jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula. To the uninitiated, these ruins are the ghosts of phantom civilizations whose... |
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| 24. |  | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century from Blackstone Audio Inc. Price: $23.07 Customer Review: I was expecting a book that would explain more about 20th century [classical] *music*, but instead this book is mainly biography mixed with a bit of history. If you don't already have a strong background in music theory you will be lost; even if you have a strong background in pre-20th century music... |
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| 25. |  | The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus from Zondervan Customer Review: The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel is a very colorful book about Jesus. It seems Strobel sought out experts on Jesus' life to compile evidence determining whether or not history is accurate about Jesus. It seems his witnesses defend... |
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| 26. |  | Many Lives Many Masters from Simon & Schuster Audio Customer Review:  I was driven to this book as a result of reading a WWII novel called The Commodore. The Commodore could have happened and may have and deals with two past lives from WWII. The novel captured me to such a degree that I read this book and found it more than interesting.The Commodore |
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| 27. |  | The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy) from Holt Paperbacks Price: $11.56 Customer Review: This is an excellent follow on to "An Army at Dawn". These books should be required reading in all high school history classes. Atkinson gives you a view of the war's events from several different perspectives quoting official documents all the way to letters home. All in all a very... |
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| 28. |  | Band of Brothers from Simon & Schuster Audio Customer Review: Ambrose is the master historian. He made history interesting again. He does it by telling the stories of regular people -- not armies, not generals, not national leaders, but rather, the common GI Joe. He did all veterans a great service in his writing. He will be missed. Don't think you know this... |
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| 29. |  | The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001) from Mariner Books Price: $9.68 Customer Review: This item makes a nice graduation gift - particularly for the high school graduate going on to college. Because it is leather bound, it can be imprinted with the recipients name. Most book stores can advise you where imprinting is available. |
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| 30. |  | Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA from Blackstone Audio Inc. Price: $27.61 Customer Review: This is really the first book I have read about the US intellingence community, and it was a very enjoyable read. Tim Weiner has very few good things to say about the CIA. It is difficult to judge whether he is too critical - I am certain he stuck to the facts, but there are... |
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